INTERCOLONIAL

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXII, Issue 46, 17 November 1904, Page 31

INTERCOLONIAL

Mr. Charles Gavan Duffy, Clerk of the Federal House of Representatives, has been made a C.M.G. The next Catholic Congress will be held in Sydney in four years' time. The arrangements ior its promotion are to be in the hands of the Archbishop of D^rncS^V^ny 13 " BISh ° P U^™> B^ A testimonial to Di. O'Doheity, the veteran '48 man, is m the air in Brisbane. It is suggested that his wite ( Eva ' of the ' Nation ') should repubhsh her verse, which was so famous with that of l Speraiua ' (Lady Wilde) at the time of the Young Ireland movement. Archbishop Murphy, of Hobart (says the ' Freeman s Journal '), who celebrated only the other day the 58th anniversary of his episcopal consecration is his own clerk of works. He superintends the erection of a diocesan college at Hobart, although he is perhaps the oldest Bishop in the Church. The Catholic Congress wound up* with a bazaar in the Cathedral Hall, which the Archbishop of Melbourne asked his Eminence the Cardinal to open. The taking during the evening amounted to over £10<M). whith is believed to be a record for any one night bazaar that has ever been held in Melbourne. William Roderick O'Connor, chief officer of the s.s. ' Kamornie,' who received the Claikei medal of the Royal Humane Society for having rescued from drowning a passenger of the wrecked steamer, ' Lady Musgrave,' at Richmond River Heads last March, is> a native of Wexford, Ireland, and is a brother of the Rev. Father Thomas O'Connor, who is on the piofessonal staff of St. Patrick's College, Wexford. One of his brothers is a barrister and another is a solicitor, in Dublin and Wexford respectively. One of the quaintest newspapers I've seen (s-ays a correspondent of a Sydney newspaper) was the periodical turned out by young Garvey, son of the landlord of the Grania Gran Uaille Hotel at Bang,alow, which I may state tor the information of those whose geography is weak, is a highly promising town, about seven miles from Byron Bay. He manufactured it with the aid of a cyclostyle, wrote all the matter m it, and also illustrated it with his own sketches. It commanded a ready sale at 3d per copy, and ran for 12 months'. I suppose it would still be in existence but the promising young journalist set his mind on more serious things', and is now studying for the priesthood at Kensington Monastery_, Sydney. One of the marked features of the Catholic Congress (writes the Melbourne coriespondent of the ' Freeman's Journal ') was the rule throughout the entire pro* ceedings that not one word should be uttered winch would be calculated to Avound or ruffle the susceptibilities ot other creeds or nationalities. As a eonsequen c the great event has been regarded by nearly every individual in the conimuniiv with tec-lings of profound satisfaction Its only critics in the daily piess were two writers who, professing to be Irish Catholics— aie signed ' J. W. Lee,' the other ' A Britisher '—objected to the discussions on Catholicity m Ireland. Mr 1-ow-ditch, a Catholic gentleman who was once an Anglican clergyman, and who is an Englishman by birth and extraction, very pertinently asked Mr. 'J. W. Lee ' in Friday morning's papers why references to Irish Catholicity should be any more objectionable than those to French and American Catholicity. The death is reported of the Rev Father Buckeridge, S.J., the sad event taking place at Norwood, South Australia, on Sunday, October 30. About eight years ago Father Buckeride,e volunteered for missionary work at Travancore, in India, and his labors in that tropical climate, so terribly trying to Europeans, and especially to those advanced in years, brought on the illness that ended his life. He had been ordained for the secular mission, and was a priest of some years' standing and a Doctor of Divinity when he entered the Jesuit Novitiate at Miltoun Park, County Dublin, in July, 1878. As a secular priest he professed theology at the great ecclesiastical college of Clonliffe, County Dublin. He won his degree of D.D. at the famous 1 College of the Propaganda in Rome, where he made his higher studies. All his life he advocated with an earnestness that seemed natural to him the noble cause of temperance. He came to Australia about 17 years ago, and since theti, except when called abroad, he has been regularly engaged in parochial work at North Sydney, New South Wales, at Hawthorn, in Victoria, and at Norwood, in South Australia.